Murder to Go (The Heights Bed and Breakfast Cozy Mystery Series Book 1) Read Online Free PDF Page A

big misunderstanding.”
    Carolyn
slapped her hands down on her thighs. “I'm not putting my trust in the
Evergreen Cove Police Department. No way! They probably couldn't find their way
out of the donut shop.”
    Sarah
cringed. “Don’t talk like that, Mom. You saw that Detective Gillespie. She’s a
sharp cookie. I'll bet she's never set foot in a donut shop.”
    Carolyn
snorted. “She’s just the one I would be most concerned about. I’m not sitting
around waiting for Babs Gillespie to prove your father innocent. If she thought
he was innocent, she would have avoided arresting him in the first place. No,
I'm not going to wait. I'm going to do something.”
    “What
are you going to do?” Sarah asked. “You can’t solve this case.”
    Carolyn
paused. “I can’t sit around wringing my hands. That’s the last thing I'm going
to do.I might not solve it but I will prove
your father’s innocence.”
    All
of a sudden, David stormed in. “I should have known something like this was
going to happen. We’re ruined.”
    Sarah
whirled around. “David! What’s the matter?”
    “All
the guests are leaving,” he cried. “They’ve all canceled the rest of their
stays. Someone wrote a review of The Heights with a link to today’s news
article about the murder.”
    “Who
would do such a hateful thing?” Carolyn asked. “Karl was just taken away last
night. He hasn’t been convicted.”
    “I
don’t know who it is,” David replied. “One of the guests just told me about it
as they were walking out the door. The post is telling people not to come here
unless you want a ham sandwich topped with poisonous mayo for lunch.”
    Sarah
covered her mouth with her hand. “Oh, no!”
    “Someone’s
cashing in on the murder,” Carolyn remarked. “We have to find out who wrote
that review. I will look it up online right away.”
    David
narrowed his eyes at her. “This is all your fault. Our business is ruined, and
it’s all because we took you and Karl in. I never wanted you in my house. Now I
am being punished for it.”
    “Karl
did nothing wrong,” Carolyn shot back. “We all know he’s innocent.”
    “Oh,
we do, do we?” David crowed.
    “You
should be thanking him. You were probably getting a lot of buzz about having a
professional chef in your kitchen,” Carolyn pointed out. “He didn’t have to do
anything for you. He wanted to help you two out in the best way he could.   That man worked all day for you and this is
how you thank him, by coming in here and yelling at me. You should be ashamed
of yourself.”
    David
jabbed the air with his finger. “Thanking him? The man has single handily
destroyed The Heights reputation. No one is going to stay here again. I don’t
think we could even sell the B & B if we put it up on the market. Karl is a
murderer. I’m not going to put up with someone making me feel that I did
something wrong.”
    Carolyn
glared at him, but she couldn’t think of a remark nasty enough to counter him.
    “Mom,
David is just upset right now. I don’t think any of us slept very well last
night.” Sarah placed a hand on her mother’s arm.
    “This
isn’t just about your father, I think David and I need some space.” Carolyn
concluded.
    She
hesitated for a fraction of an instant then she spun around on her heel and
stomped off to her room. She pulled out the suitcase, tossed it onto the bed
and started packing.
    Sarah
came to the door, and flew to her mother’s sidewhen
she saw her mother packing her suitcase. “Don’t leave, Mom. We’re all on edge
here. Let us work it out somehow.”
    Carolyn
didn’t look up. “I don’t want to work it out. If that’s the way he feels, maybe
it’s better that I stay somewhere else for a while.”
    Sarah
tried to grab a hold of her mother’s hands. “Please don’t leave, Mom. Dad has been
arrested, and now the B & B is in trouble. I need you right now.”
    David’s
voice floated through the door. “Let her leave.”
    Carolyn
smiled at